We Found Wonderland:
An Art Show by Karie Luidens

My first solo show was featured in the gallery at Ketchup City Creative in December 2025.

Curious about my creative process? (Curiouser and curiouser!)
Check out my essay on the show for Pittsburgh’s own Petrichor Magazine.

“She Is Large, She Contains Multitudes”
by Karie Luidens
Petrichor Magazine
December 2, 2025

… In developing this show, I wanted to interrogate Swift’s poetry with the same seriousness I brought to my thesis on Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. However, since Swift works in an era saturated with imagery—since she is so very strategic about the aesthetics of her albums, and yet so unable to control how the media will portray her in the world beyond—it felt only right to do so not just through the written word but through a wide array of visual mediums. …

Ready to find Wonderland? Explore photos from the show…

The gallery at Ketchup City Creative

The girl in the dress wrote us some songs…

Took a wrong turn and we fell down a rabbit hole

Didn’t you calm my fears with a Cheshire Cat smile?

But there were strangers watching, and whispers turned to talking…

It’s all fun and games ‘til somebody loses their mind

Through the looking-glass…

You wonder if you’ll make it out alive

I just learned these people only raise you to cage you

Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first

I was tame, I was gentle, till the circus life made me mean

What if I told you I’m a mastermind?

The lights refract sequin stars off her silhouette every night (I can show you lies)

You look like Taylor Swift in this light

Will you still want me when I’m nothing new?